Entries tagged with fanlib: story stats

Fandoms at FanLib are listed in order of "popularity," meaning fandoms represented by the most fanfiction appear first.

Browsing the fandoms this morning, I noticed something very interesting has happened.

As recently as July, only the first and second pages of fandoms (between 75 and 150 fandoms) had stories. There were about two thousand fandoms with no stories at all; as has been noted by many, FanLib lifted fanfiction.net's fandom list in its entirety.

But today 500 of those 2,000 formerly empty fandoms have 1 or 2 stories each.

Isn't that... convenient. Too convenient. I estimate FanLib has gained only two thousand stories (today's count is 6,730) since I last did a count in late July. How probable is it that a quarter would be in formerly unrepresented fandoms? Not. Very.

I took a look at the hundreds of fandoms now represented by a single story. What I found was even more interesting, but not particularly surprising. Most of the stories aren't new.

Most were uploaded in March, when FanLib was giving away valuable prizes to fanfiction authors in a desperate bid to get content.

On another note, I'm so releaved to see the 4400 get a story, I've felt kind of dumb for putting it on the list a few weeks back because I thought it's upcoming (a few days from now) season premier would attract lots of fic'ing. Now I feel like screaming "go little fandom! write!"

It also appears to me that FFN's Harry Potter section will top 300,000 either tomorrow or the next day. Should we through them a party?